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Auslan News

Grade Preps have continued practising signs to describe farm animals: furry/fluffy, woolly, smelly, jumpy, poisonous, big, small, fast, slow, rough, smooth, and tall.

Grade Preps drew some Farm Animal ART and signed their animal, its colour and a body description in Auslan for Mrs R. Grade Preps have enjoyed making Farm Animal masks this week to take home and sign with their families.

Grade 1-2s are continuing to practise describing and comparing animals using signs including: describing, furry/fluffy, woolly, smelly, jumpy, poisonous, and feathered, big & small, fast & slow, rough & smooth, tall & short, bigger/smaller than, faster/slower than, rougher/smoother than, and taller/shorter than. Grade 1-2’s made pop-up animal scenes to sign descriptions of their animals in small groups.

Grade 3-4s have continued to practise signs for Transport: transport, travel, car, drive, boat, train, helicopter, plane, van, truck, bike, tram, motorbike, bus, caravan, and hot-air balloon. The Grade 3-4s created PowerPoint presentations which they presented in small groups this week. The students worked well on their PowerPoints and their presentations were very well done. Enjoy the photos below of some children signing their PowerPoint presentations!!

Grade 5-6s completed their PowerPoint presentations on a Number topic in small groups this week also. The Grade 5-6s worked consistently well across all classes to apply the rules we have been learning in Number topics, including signing: Ages from 1month old to 100+years old, Percentages, Fractions and Decimals, as well as Times for o’clock/half past/and all times in between. Please see some photos below of some of the Grade 5-6s signing their Number presentations also!

Mrs Riordan.

Sports News

Loddon Mallee Region Cross Country

Congratulations to Max H, Jed H, Taj W and Lotti Mc who represented Spring Gully Primary and the Sandhurst Division at the LM Regional Cross Country on Tuesday. This event featured the best distance runners from North West, North Central and Central Victoria and was held on a particularly challenging St Arnaud course. 

In an amazing run, both Max (10th) and Jed (11th) finished in the top 12 of the 10 Years Boys race and have now qualified for the School Sport Victoria - State Cross Country Championships at Yarra Glen later this year. Outstanding effort Max and Jed.

Taj (23rd) and Lotti (42nd), also performed brilliantly in their respective races and should both be very proud of their efforts. Awesome effort!

Division Soccer Championships

I would like to congratulate both the Senior Boys and Girls soccer teams for their performance at the Sandhurst Division Soccer Championships at Epsom yesterday. Both of our teams represented the school extremely well, demonstrating wonderful sportsmanship, skill and team spirit.

The Girls team had a particularly successful day, going through undefeated, finishing 1st and winning the Division Champions Title. They finished the day with 6 wins, one draw and only conceded 1 goal for the day. The girls will now go on to represent the school at the LM Regional Final in Swan Hill on the 8th of August.

The Boys team also had a great day, particularly given it was the first time many of the team members had played competitive soccer. They were extremely competitive in all of the games they played, often dominating play but unlucky not to score. They finished the day with one win, three draws and three losses.

It was a pleasure to take such a well behaved, enthusiastic, team orientated group of students to this tournament. I would sincerely like to thank Michelle 'Billsy' Maher for outstanding coaching of the Girls team. I would also like the thank Mr Daenke for his wonderful work with the Boys team. The players have certainly learnt a great deal in a short period of time.